Considering the results of most seasons of American Idol, the decision about what music to enjoy.
Having kids when you’re under 25. If you want to get pregnant, you should go through a lot of trouble.
Antibiotics, like WhyNot said. Its bad enough that factory farmers use them as a dood group.
Starting a church. Storting a tax- exempt organization where you gold power over individuals should not be possible for anyone with a rap sheet.
Debt. An astonishing number of people don’t grasp how difficult it is to pay off large home or college loans.
Also, Saving for Retirement. If Forbes is to be believed, the baby boomers have managed to reach retirement age with less then 25K in their (averaged) nest eggs.
Maybe I should combine these into “People cannot be trusted to plan very far ahead.”
Sigh.
I came here to say just that. At least we’re finally now seeing some restrictions on agricultural use.
If self driving cars become an actual thing then future people will be astounded we let the average schlub drive their own ton of steel around.
You talking to this guy:David Hahn
I think the problem is less “debt” and more “living within the means you have.” People don’t try to get a home loan for 50% of their disposable income, they try to get a bigger house for 90% of their disposable income.
I think the actual problem is:
Really, not “for retirement” but saving in general. People need to be taught that saving is better than spending.
There is also the problem that poverty teaches having no saving simply because it’s impossible to save, so when they start making more money, they have to invest an incredible amount of time and energy altering their habits.
I note that this was well taken care of in times past because of the stay-at-home-mom thing. A person could lend her energy to maintaining the finances of the family without having to try and balance that with working while the partner also works. Since we lost that pillar of a stay-at-home-someone who could tend to the home life, we kinda boned ourselves.
Pesticides for home and garden use. People cry “infestation” if any kind of critter, plant of fungus dares to enter the home or garden. Then they buy some kind of poison spray to nuke it form orbit.
It should be illegal to poison any kind of critter you don’t know the Latin name of and haven’t read the Wikipedia page of. At the very least people should be able to weigh the dangers of the poison for themselves and the environment against the dangers (if any) of having a harmless bug in their garden.
Secrets.
Credit.
You can have my lethal infectious organisms when you scrape them off my cold dead hands, commie!
Laws regulating living plants and animals are a good idea. It’s too easy for some invasive species to get loose and wreak havoc in a new environment.
Classify it as terrorism and send the writers to Gitmo.
Whooshed.
Democracy.
It’s wise to let them think they have democracy, though.
Unless there’s a point that has yet to reveal itself, shouldn’t this thread be in IMHO?
Actually, in my city, it IS illegal to use chemical pesticides.
http://www.halifax.ca/legislation/bylaws/hrm/blp-800.pdf
Maybe you’d like to move here 
Lawn care companies had to switch to natural products, and you can’t buy chemical pesticides in stores around here. Some people buy elsewhere and apply secretly though.
That’s the guy I was thinking about yeah, I couldn’t remember his name :). And I see he’s at it again. Dude needs to take a hint.
Sunday shopping.
I’m fine with people buying and selling stuff from Monday at 12am until Saturday at 11:59pm, but on Sundays people just can’t be trusted.
Especially cars.
Back up a step… their genitals that might produce children, and then the subsequent children.